Sone studied architecture at Tokyo University of the Arts (東京芸術大学, Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku).
Sone's work was the subject of solo exhibitions at Maison Hermès Le Forum, Tokyo from December 2010 to February 2010[1] and at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery from January 2011 to March 2011.
[2] His 25-foot tall sculpture, titled Baby Banana Tree, was installed as a public artwork at the Boone Sculpture Garden, Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California, in 2009.
[citation needed] His work has been shown internationally including the Venice Biennale (2003) where he had a two-person exhibit in the Japanese pavilion, and numerous important group exhibitions, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois (2005),[citation needed] and the Whitney Biennial (2004).
[5] Sone's work is held in the permanent collections of the Tate Modern,[6] London, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, [7] and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,[8] among other institutions.